Calabar bean
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Calabar bean
1875–80; named after Calabar, Nigeria
Example Sentences
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First, there were small amounts of the Calabar bean - sometimes known as the Doomsday or ordeal plant, traditionally used in witchcraft ceremonies in West Africa.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2021
The final version of today’s Google Doodle for the U.S. shows the chemical structure of cortisone coming from an intermediate in soybean together with physostigmine from the West African Calabar bean.
From Forbes • Apr. 11, 2014
Among the Calabar tribes the ordeal drink is of two kinds: one made from the Calabar bean, the other, the great ju-ju drink Mbiam, which is used also in taking oaths.
From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.
If, therefore, Calabar bean benefits that disease, it cannot do so in the manner suggested by the author.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Bean, bēn, n. the name of several kinds of leguminous plants and their seeds: applied also to the seeds of some other plants, from their bean-like form, as the Calabar bean, &c.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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